On 23 Mar 2017 12:30 am, "Stefan Sperling" <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 02:42:19PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > In case it is of any help to anyone. I tried 11n on a ar9271 a few weeks > ago and also an ar2133. Both would give athn0: device timeouts but the usb > ar9271 needed a ifconfig down up to recover whereas the card recovered by > itself. Using 11g made them far less likely and whilst I have hardly used > the 11b ssid, I haven't had any with 11b on the 9271 so far. > > Also after using 11n and getting multiple resets I had to plug the card > into another laptop to get the firmware to load again without saying could > not read ROM, even after reboots. So maybe some state is kept on OpenBSD or > more likely perhaps it was unplugged for long enough to clear the cards > memory or something. There is a known issue which looks like ehci(4) on some USB host controllers does not feed sufficient power to athn(4) devices and then they won't work reliably. It is indeed an ehci hub, :)
